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Wednesday, August 17, 2016

The Last First Day of Class

As I only have one semester left at university and 6 month apartment leases are hard to find, I've found myself once again living in a dorm room until the semester is over. As far as dorms go, it's not bad - I have single room tucked into a corner suite in a building sheltered by large pines, which means the A/C is able to handle the intensely humid Carolina heat and I share the space with only myself.

I feel in many ways that my senior year of university is a repeat of my senior year of high school - I'm only taking 9 credit hours, I'm commuting to the same nearby city multiple times a week (then for school, now for work), my friends are splitting off into what they want to do post-grad, and I feel suddenly rushed to decide what I'm really trying to accomplish, now and in the future. It's a strange feeling, knowing that I'm at the very end of a long period of my life and will soon be stepping out into the utter unknown.These final few months of school feel like I'm already halfway into the real world. Today - my last first day of class - was preceded by two days of job training for an internship in a field where I will potentially work post-grad, and my time this semester will be evenly split between mornings in class and afternoons in the office. It's exciting and it's scary, but no more so than usual - every semester has brought its share of excitement and trials, and everything has come together so well this semester that I feel ready for whatever it brings.